Fisheries committee  There's a bit more than that too. I'm interested in the history of the fishery, and one of the things in the fishery was that the man who owned the boat and the son or second man in the boat both had the same licence. There was no such thing, at that time, as a helper's licence b

Fisheries committee  . No, I'm not suggesting that the Government of Canada subsidize the shore price or anything like that. I think some people would say it would be nice to get the extra money, but in actual fact we would be artificially propping up the industry, which I don't think in the long run

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  They certainly do have to sell it. I think the processors would be working with various organizations, whether it's the Food Technology Centre or with CCFI or other groups, to either produce new products or maybe have a more aggressive marketing approach and go into new markets a

Fisheries committee  Those fishermen are smart.

Fisheries committee  Well, you raise an excellent question: what do you do if you have a wharf full of lobsters and nowhere to get rid of them? It is a fundamental question, and one that very well may be faced by the fishermen this spring. I would suggest there are two things that you in government

Fisheries committee  That has been largely replaced by the window lobster. The larger lobsters and the females are put back and so it has the same effect. I think it's safe to say fishermen in this area generally are not supportive of the V-notching process. Could I go back for a moment to Mr. MacAu

Fisheries committee  It's a very important program. It started in the 1980s. It was the idea of a bunch of fishermen who came to the department and said, “Why can't we cooperate? You can't get more wardens. You can't get more officers. Your resources are continually being cut. Why can't we work at th

Fisheries committee  There were a couple of other elements in the plan, Lawrence, that were really troublesome. One was that there were two raises in carapace size of a millimetre each that the fishermen got absolutely no credit for. Second, in Northumberland Strait they were talking about cutting o

Fisheries committee  That's right. You've grown potatoes for many years. This year, Lawrence, I have a new rule for you. This is going to help you. You are allowed to grow five acres of potatoes and you have to survive on that. Can you do it?

Fisheries committee  What I'm saying is that the solutions have to be reasonable, viable, balanced, and made up between the fishermen and the department as partners and not be rammed down the fishermen's throats.

Fisheries committee  I'll do the warden part in a moment.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to complement what Danny has said, what you have heard are the words of a hard-working, honest fisherman who makes his living from the front of the boat—not from an office, not from investments; he does it by hard work and through an honest day's la

Fisheries committee  If I might add to that, I would be hopeful that the federal and provincial governments—again, irrespective of party lines and those sorts of things—would work together to look at this. If you lent money out at prime, what you'd be doing is investing in the future, particularly fo

Fisheries committee  Yes, Peter. Thank you for your questions. I'd like to go back to the buyout, the FRCC report. I read the 1995 and 2007 reports several times. I don't share the same opinion as the FRCC in the 2007 report, whereby they think it should be a self-rationalization program, because t